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Amelia as the Wicked Queen

This painting represents the choreographed dance moves of Ballet Des Moines professional dancer, Amelia. She wears a motion-sensing remote as she performs scenes from her role as the Evil Queen in ballet Snow White. Manibus simultaneously renders the dynamics of her movements into a painted work of art. Manibus was created by visual artist, Amenda Tate Corso. It is a robotic tool utilized to translate the ephemeral and dynamic movement of ballet into a sustaining work of art. The painting was created in two parts. During the first part, Ameila wore the sensor device to paint a dance solo of the Evil Queen in a regal purple. Secondarily, she performed another scene from the production in which the Queen is behind a scrim. It is painted atop the first in gray. This conceptualizes both the overt and hidden agendas of the Queen. For more info: www.amendatate.com Manibus Project Amenda Tate Corso, Ballet Des Moines Artist-In-Residence Spring 2017 The same series of choreographed moves was repeated a second and third time on a larger piece of paper. The results were far from identical in painted form. Each time, the results of Amelia's efforts bore distinctly unique marks and variances. This is a testament to the ideology that time can never exactly reproduce itself despite our best human efforts.